Development of Autonomous Lawn Mower From Locally Sourced Materials

This robot is designed to be environment friendly and operated by a rechargeable battery. It can be describe as an intelligent robot because the micro controller receives information from several sensors connected to it in avoiding obstacle and use the information to actuate the left and right motors driving the wheels and the center motor driving blade while it obeys all its program parameters. More

A lawnmower is a machine that uses a revolving blade or blades to cut a lawn grass. Many designs have been made, each suited to a particular purpose. Manual grass cutter has environmental issues regarding pollution's and also require the need of man power to operate and has a great maintenance to its engine. This robot is design to be environment friendly and operated by a rechargeable battery and can be describe as an intelligent robot because the micro-controller receives information from several sensors (PIR, Humidity and Bumper switches) connected to it in avoiding obstacle to ensure a neat pattern of cut and use the information to actuate the left and right motors driving the wheels and the center motor driving blade and at the same time it obeys all parameters of work and its program database. The result obtained from the test and analysis carried out shows that our development of the autonomous lawn mower from locally sourced materials is highly recommended because it is safer to use, environmental friendly, easy to operate, and fully automated.

Damilare Ojo (popularly known as VC) was born in 1992. He is a graduate of Federal University Oye-Ekiti. He graduated on top of his class among his peers that were awarded as the first set of Mechatronics Engineering degree holder in Nigeria in the year 2016. During his educational career, he took up several leadership roles and helped the various bodies he served (NAMTES, NUESA, ACCF) achieve tremendous success. He is currently doing his master’s program in MSc. Financial Engineering at WorldQuant University, New Orleans, LA USA. His area of specialization are Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Process Automation and Financial Engineering. He has researched on Mechatronics Design of Paper Dispensing Machine, Development of an Autonomous Robotic Lawn Mower from Locally Sourced Materials, Automated Car Parking System among others. He Presented a Paper on "Cultivating the T-Shape Engineer-Engineering Management" at Annual Engineering Students Conference (AESC) 2016, NUESA.